Where two or more persons have made a joint promise, a release of one of such joint promisors by the promisee does not discharge the other joint promisor or joint promisors; neither does it free the joint promisor so released from responsibility to the other joint promisor or joint promisors.
Chapter IV — Of the Performance of Contracts
Section 44
Effect of release of one joint promisor
Printed from Law on Tips • The Indian Contract Act, 1872